Therefore, just before you manually make a restore point, check that System Restore has made some recent restore points.
There are three reasons for this.įirst, under some conditions, System Restore will purposely turn itself off and not tell you that it's no longer running. The bad part leads to the first tip - every now and then make a restore point manually, just to be sure you can (instructions for doing so are below). System Restore runs silently in the background, thus, you can use a Windows XP machine for years and not be aware of its existence - which is both good and bad. They reside on the C disk in a folder Windows tries to keep hidden. Microsoft refers to System Restore backups as 'restore points'. In that event, you can restore the latest System Restore backup and hopefully fix things. It does this in case some piece of software is not doing something today that it was doing yesterday.
System Restore is a feature of Windows XP that periodically backs up the Windows system folders.
